*Rising star Jodie Turner-Smith will star opposite Academy Award® nominee Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out, Black Panther) in Universal Pictures and Makeready’s Queen & Slim, written by Lena Waithe and directed by Melina Matsoukas (HBO’s Insecure and Beyoncé’s “Formation”) who is set to make her feature film directorial debut.
Turner-Smith will next be seen in Nightflyers for SyFy. Her other credits include The Last Ship for TNT, Mad Dogs for Amazon Prime Video and True Blood for HBO.
Turner-Smith took to Instagram to share the exciting news.
“Words cannot express how excited I am to be starting this journey with you [Daniel Kaluuya,]” she wrote. “[Waithe and Matsoukas], thank you for choosing me to be your QUEEN.”
Queen & Slim centers on a couple whose lives are thrown into turmoil on their very first date after being stopped by a police officer. When they’re forced to kill the officer in self-defense, the pair make a decision to go on the run instead of turning themselves into authorities.
A complex film with many layers, Queen & Slim, explores America’s social and political climate through the lens of a genre-defying love story. When a Black man and Black woman on a first date are pulled over by a police officer at a traffic stop, their life goes awry. Forced to kill him in self-defense, rather than turn themselves in, they must go on the run.
Queen & Slim is set for release in North America on Thanksgiving weekend, November 27, 2019.
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